31.   Police refused to confirm reports by Kyodo News Service and the Mainichi newspaper that they want to question cult leader Shoko Asahara on suspicion of plotting mass murder.

32.   Police would not comment on reports that they plan to question Asahara on suspicion of plotting mass murder.

33.   He will be charged with plotting murder by directly ordering the production of the lethal nerve gas Sarin, it said.

34.   Investigators reportedly said they were preparing to arrest him for plotting murder early next week.

35.   Israeli police on Wednesday arrested the head of an extreme-right wing group suspected of plotting the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, military radio said.

36.   Aum leader Shoko Asahara and six of his followers were indicted for murder and attempted murder, and nine others were indicted for plotting murder.

37.   Besides Andreotti and Vitalone, two Mafia godfathers, Pipo Calo and Tano Badalamenti, are also charged with plotting the murder.

38.   The soldier, belonging to a combat unit, is suspected of being a member of a group that plotted the murder.

39.   The scolding led the two girls to plot the murder of their parents, it said.

40.   Twelve other cult members have been indicted for plotting murder.